English phrasal verb originated from Old English,and originally produced in Anglo-Saxon.It evoluted and developed through different historical stages from Old English,Middle English to Early Modern English,and it has ...English phrasal verb originated from Old English,and originally produced in Anglo-Saxon.It evoluted and developed through different historical stages from Old English,Middle English to Early Modern English,and it has now become a very active and rapidly developing part of Contemporary English.A study on the historical development and the syntactic test methods of phrasal verbs can make us fully distinguish the relations and differences between English phrasal verbs,prepositional verbs and Prepositional phrase verbs.It is easy to grasp the usage of English phrasal verb after understanding the word formation characteristics.展开更多
Collocations transmit cultural and societal meanings and stereotypes which have built up over time;therefore,research of collocations,especially lexical collocations,provides particular insights into history.The prese...Collocations transmit cultural and societal meanings and stereotypes which have built up over time;therefore,research of collocations,especially lexical collocations,provides particular insights into history.The present study examines verb-noun lexical collocations of'eat'and'wear'between 1800 and 2000 through three corpora:Corpus of Historical American English(COHA),Corpus of Contemporary American English(COCA)and Google Books(American).Whilst exploring possible semantic changes in the use of these two verbs,the author seeks for the explanation of the alternative of old collocations and the appearance of new ones.It is found that there is not much fluctuation in the meaning of'eat'and'wear'after two centuries.Besides,it also reveals that social changes have had great impacts on language changes which can modify or create new collocations in the verbnoun lexical collocation of'eat'and 'wear'.By means of identifying the syntagmatic and paradigmatic properties of verb-noun lexical collocation of'eat'and 'wear',it is clearly shown that corpus has potential applications in translation studies,language teaching,and other scientific fields.展开更多
文摘English phrasal verb originated from Old English,and originally produced in Anglo-Saxon.It evoluted and developed through different historical stages from Old English,Middle English to Early Modern English,and it has now become a very active and rapidly developing part of Contemporary English.A study on the historical development and the syntactic test methods of phrasal verbs can make us fully distinguish the relations and differences between English phrasal verbs,prepositional verbs and Prepositional phrase verbs.It is easy to grasp the usage of English phrasal verb after understanding the word formation characteristics.
文摘Collocations transmit cultural and societal meanings and stereotypes which have built up over time;therefore,research of collocations,especially lexical collocations,provides particular insights into history.The present study examines verb-noun lexical collocations of'eat'and'wear'between 1800 and 2000 through three corpora:Corpus of Historical American English(COHA),Corpus of Contemporary American English(COCA)and Google Books(American).Whilst exploring possible semantic changes in the use of these two verbs,the author seeks for the explanation of the alternative of old collocations and the appearance of new ones.It is found that there is not much fluctuation in the meaning of'eat'and'wear'after two centuries.Besides,it also reveals that social changes have had great impacts on language changes which can modify or create new collocations in the verbnoun lexical collocation of'eat'and 'wear'.By means of identifying the syntagmatic and paradigmatic properties of verb-noun lexical collocation of'eat'and 'wear',it is clearly shown that corpus has potential applications in translation studies,language teaching,and other scientific fields.
